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Alone   /əlˈoʊn/   Listen
adverb
Alone  adv.  Solely; simply; exclusively.



adjective
Alone  adj.  
1.
Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; applied to a person or thing. "Alone on a wide, wide sea." "It is not good that the man should be alone."
2.
Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. "Man shall not live by bread alone." "The citizens alone should be at the expense."
3.
Sole; only; exclusive. (R.) "God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being."
4.
Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. Note: The adjective alone commonly follows its noun.
To let alone or To leave alone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.






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"Alone" Quotes from Famous Books



... day of their meeting was near at hand. These thoughts made his heart rebel against the yoke he had striven to impose upon it; for no matter what attempts may be made to destroy it, hope will not die in a heart that loves sincerely. It resists time and the sternest ordeals. Death alone can, not destroy it, but transform it, by associating realization with the delights of a future life which shall know no blight ...
— Which? - or, Between Two Women • Ernest Daudet

... upon his pillow and closed his eyes in pretended sleep, while his mother softly opened the door of the apartment, and faced the mob alone. For, obedient to her order, the great portals of the palace had been opened, and up the broad staircase now pushed and scrambled the successful mob. The people were in the palace ...
— Historic Boys - Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times • Elbridge Streeter Brooks

... till eight o'clock: alone in his office he computed the fact roughly from his watch, a battered heirloom whose word was not to be taken literally. Good!—half an hour before time to dress. Leisure, being a scant commodity, was proportionally valued. The young man advanced ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... prescience, plebiscite Scribo, scriptum write prescribe, manuscript, escritoire Seco, sectum cut secant, dissect Sedeo, sessum sit supersede, obsession Sentio, sensum feel presentiment, consensus Sequor, secutus follow sequence, persecute, ensue Signum sign insignia, designate *Solus alone solitude, desolate Solvo, solutum loosen solvent, dissolute *Somnus sleep somnambulist, insomnia *Sono sound consonant, resonance *Sors, sortis lot sort, assortment Specio, spectum look despicable, suspect Spiro, spiratum breathe perspire, conspiracy *Spondeo, ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... this idea affords a remarkable example of the confusion produced by the employment of scientific terminology in daily life. Until within a short time every possible meaning of the word capital was to be found in the dictionary of the French Academy, its scientific politico-economical meaning alone excepted. During the middle ages, the Latin capitale was used to signify both loaned money and cattle. (Ducange, s.v.) When culture was at its highest in Greece, Demosthenes entertained very good ideas of the nature of capital which he ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher


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